How to format your references using the Research Involvement and Engagement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Involvement and Engagement. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Moore P. PCR: replicating success. Nature. 2005;435:235–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jones-Smith K, Mathur H. Fractal Analysis: revisiting Pollock’s drip paintings. Nature. 2006;444:E9-10; discussion E10-11.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hsieh C-S, Kovářík J, Logan T. How central are clients in sexual networks created by commercial sex? Sci Rep. 2014;4:7540.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ridderinkhof KR, de Vlugt Y, Bramlage A, Spaan M, Elton M, Snel J, et al. Alcohol consumption impairs detection of performance errors in mediofrontal cortex. Science. 2002;298:2209–11.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Rossetti N. Managing Power Electronics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Yoshida Y, Langouche G, editors. Defects and Impurities in Silicon Materials: An Introduction to Atomic-Level Silicon Engineering. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Zhang Z, Xue Y, Zhu X, Li X, Yao H, Miura K. Combustion Behavior of Low-Rank Coal Upgraded by Degradative Solvent Extraction. In: Yue G, Li S, editors. Clean Coal Technology and Sustainable Development: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Coal Combustion. Singapore: Springer; 2016. p. 31–7.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Research Involvement and Engagement.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Hubble Detects Faint Galaxy. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Review of Certain Problems in the Cosmetology Accrediting Commission. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Aug. Report No.: MWD-76-13.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Joshi T. Understanding gold nanoisland formation using transport measurement [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Kenigsberg B. Company Town. New York Times. 2017 Sep 7;C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Involvement and Engagement
Abbreviation	Res. Involv. Engagem.
ISSN (online)	2056-7529
Scope